The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

Marking the ancient boundaries of asylum around Beverley Minster.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.